U.S. and Worldwide; Zemstvo
November 6-7, 2013 and November 13, 2013
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1 United States 1847 Issue 1847 5c red brown, blue "Paid" cancel, margins all around, nice color, corner crease at upper right, otherwise fine, O Catalog #1 Catalog Value $535 | Price Realized $160.00 |
 | Lot #2 United States 1847 Issue 1847 5c red brown, margins all around incl. part of adjoining stamp at bottom, tied by red New York square grid cancel to 1851 FL addressed to New Brunswick, NJ, filing fold away from the stamp, v.f.,  Catalog #1 Catalog Value $525 | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #3 United States 1847 Issue 1849 cover (carried out of mails) endorsed "from Commo. Jones, Commanding in the Pacific" to Commodore David Geisinger, Comd'g East India Squadron, also "Politeness of Commo: Voorhees" (Commodore William Voorhees, was in the steamboat trade and is also credited with the founding of the Nyack Water Department). An interesting letter with cast of characters including Commodore Jones (In 1843, Jones returned a young deserter, Herman Melville, from the Sandwich Islands to the United States. Later, Melville modeled "Commodore J" in Moby-Dick and the commodore in White-Jacket after Jones. In 1848-1850, during the chaotic Gold Rush days, Jones provided a U.S. Navy presence in the San Francisco area while the United States debated what to do with the newly acquired California Territory), Commodore David Geisinger commanded the East India Squadron from 1848 to 1850 | Price Realized $575.00 |
 | Lot #4 United States 1847 Issue 1850 cover (with fascinating letter of consents) from Brunswick, with red "Paid 10" and Brunswick Maine departure cds alongside, addressed to "Mr. John Sewall U.S.Ship Saratoga, of the East India Squadron, via Naval Lyceum at New York," with a good strike of "U.S.Naval Lyceum." Apparently forward to China, with endorsement at top "received 9.18.52 Hong Kong Pr. Susquehanna" | Price Realized $525.00 |
